# AI news, Saturday, 5 September 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's AI news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/ai-news/2026-09-05/

## Bodhan AI launches four open Indian-language models

Language. Open-weight ASR, TTS, MT and OCR for dozens of Indian languages as Digital Public Goods under the Bharat EduAI Stack.

Source: Economic Times, https://m.economictimes.com/ai/ai-insights/iit-madras-bodhan-ai-launches-four-ai-models-for-indian-languages-in-partnership-with-ai4bharat/articleshow/133755779.cms

## Microsoft ships MAI-Transcribe-2 multilingual ASR

Language. Sixty-language STT with diarisation, timestamps, keyword biasing and code-switching at $0.10 per hour through end-2026.

Source: Microsoft, https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-transcribe-2-is-the-fastest-most-accurate-and-cheapest-speech-recognition-model-in-the-world/

## OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra

Models. Trusted Access first, then Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and API. Changes which frontier model agent stacks build against.

Source: OpenAI, https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

## SpaceXAI publishes Designing Grok Bot essay

Agents. Describes Bot roster, presence, Bot-owned computer, Skills and Routines, and work that starts without a prompt.

Source: xAI, https://x.ai/news/designing-grok-bot